Infertility or subfertility is a critical barrier to sustainable cattle production, including in heifers.
The development of heifers that do not produce a calf within an optimum window of time is a …

This paper aims to classify the dairy systems of an Alpine area (Trento Province, Italy) and
compare them in terms of productivity, milk destination, maintenance of livestock …

Background Genetic progress for fertility and reproduction traits in dairy cattle has been
limited due to the low heritability of most indicator traits. Moreover, most of the quantitative …

Cheese yield (CY) is the most important technological trait of milk, because cheese-making
uses a very high proportion of the milk produced worldwide. Few studies have been carried …

This study investigated the hypothesis that dairy heifers divergent in genetic merit for fertility
traits differ in the age of puberty and reproductive performance. New Zealand's fertility …

The aim of this article was to review the state of fertility of female dairy cattle in South Africa
and to compare it with international efforts at improving fertility. Fertility in dairy cows is …

Milk yield has a strong effect on fertility, but it may vary across different herds and individual
cows. Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the effects of breed and its interaction …

Genetic evaluation of female fertility in Danish, Finnish, and Swedish dairy cows was
updated in 2015 to multiple-trait animal model evaluation, where heifer and cow fertility up to …

Background Subfertility is one challenge facing the dairy industry as the average Holstein
heifer conception rate (HCR), the proportion of heifers that conceive and maintain a …

Background The objective of the present study was to estimate (co) variance components of
female fertility traits in Chinese Holsteins, considering fertility traits in different parities as …